Today, it's curtains for the legendary Yangtze Cinema (长江戏院) which screened R(21) movies. The owner Mr Mono Chong is a friend. I turned up with my husband to bide farewell to Singapore's last standing old cinema with a colourful piece of history.
The two storey Yangtze Cinema opened on 27 January 1977. It showed mainly Chinese movies during its early days and had its golden era. Tickets cost S$1, S$2 and S$3 (upper level) then.
Equipped with digital cinema projection, it started to screen erotic films from Hong Kong, Japan and Korea in 1995 when multiplexes become the norm. The cinema's clientèle were mainly elderly men and they paid S$10 for a ticket.
Today, it's curtains for the legendary Yangtze Cinema (长江戏院) which screened R(21) movies. The owner Mr Mono Chong is a friend. I turned up with my husband.